Notes is a place to keep lists and ideas. They live in folders, and a photo you add stays on this phone. A task can have up to three alerts. Account, then Notifications, shows what is set to fire, and a repeating task keeps its alerts. Press and hold a reply to select the words, ask Buddy about them, or copy them. Sounds play when you finish a task, add one, or start and end Talk. You can set them in Account, then Look & feel. To restore a backup from this version, update Buddy on the other phone first.

Send tasks to Buddy from Claude, Claude Code or Cursor if you are signed in and 18 or over. They wait in Drafts until you add them. Buddy now runs in 56 languages. If your phone is set to one of the new ones, Buddy follows it, and you can pick another in Account, then Language. Explore has a new look. Swipe an idea right to save it for later, or left to hide it. The button beside the Explore title opens your saved and hidden ideas, the topics and your interests. Search now matches words, not letters, and puts the best matches first. Prefer the old cards? Pick Classic in Account, then Look & feel, then Explore cards. Talk is one tap from Today, beside the +, and free Talk is now eight short sessions a day. Talk also has a new, faster voice. If it gives you any trouble, tap the switch at the top of the Buddy chat to switch back. Tap a part of the day or a date to fold it away. Upcoming and Catch up open right on Today and switch much faster, and a long press selects several tasks. Repeats can now pick their weekdays and end on a date. Buddy also works much better with large text.

Buddy now runs in 20 languages. New this time: Malayalam, Gujarati, Catalan, Romanian and Croatian. Pick one in Account, or follow your phone. If you are 13 or over, you can sign in with your phone number. The name Buddy stays Buddy. Your own words stay as you wrote them.

Buddy now runs in 15 languages: English, Hindi, Thai, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Tamil, Portuguese, Russian, Bengali, Telugu and Kannada. Pick one in Account, or follow your phone. Today, chat and Explore follow that choice. The name Buddy stays Buddy. Your own words stay as you wrote them.

Buddy can run in Hindi and Thai. Pick one in Account, or follow your phone. Chat, Today, and Explore follow that choice. The name Buddy stays Buddy. Tasks can keep a streak. Give a task a repeat, switch on Streak, and Buddy counts the days in a row and nudges you before one breaks. Open Today, tap Lists, then Streak to see them all. An empty day is less empty. The rabbit from the app icon skates around Today when nothing is planned yet, and taps the + to get you started. Turn it off under Doodle on an empty day, in Account, Look & feel.

Account is back on the tab bar. Explore has search. The Home Screen mark follows your theme. On iOS 26 and 27, buttons use Liquid Glass. Chat can keep a draft, and a task picture shows on the Lock Screen.

Share a link or a picture to Buddy from any app and it lands in Saved links. Say what you wanted from it and Buddy turns it into a task, or talk it through first.

Explore is a new tab of ready tasks and plans you can add in one tap. Account now lives at the bottom of Lists.

Today can offer the Lock Screen, the weather, and the tour at the moment they first matter. A streak that ended yesterday still counts. The task sheet is quieter, and a Live Activity now needs a length you chose.

The two lines on Today now open your lists. Every list uses the same task card. A repeating task you delete is one row, not thirty. Watching is easier to find and a finished watch leaves the list.

Talk now shows Buddy's ideas in the room. Add or skip them without leaving the conversation. Talking is steadier in a noisy room.

A welcome page and a skippable tour of Buddy's main features. Open the tour again any time from Account. The Home Screen icon follows the colour you pick in Look & feel. Repeating tasks now show on every day they belong.

A new home-screen icon. Fifteen free chats a day, three short Talk sessions a day, and three free High Thinking plans to try before Buddy Pro. Deleting a repeating task now asks whether you mean just today or the whole plan.

High Thinking for Buddy Pro — longer plans, up to 6 months ahead. Lock tasks Buddy should not see, or keep the whole plan private. Hold a settings icon to see what it does. Clear old tasks into Recently deleted.

Optional talk top-ups ($5 to $100) if you run out of Talk time. A top-up does not add extra chats. Typed chat stays 8 messages a day on Free. Buddy Pro is still $4.99 / $49.99.

Typed chat is free for 8 messages a day. Talk mode stays in Buddy Pro at $4.99 / $49.99. You can ask a signed-in adult to get a ping when you finish a task. The first chat asks before words or attachments go to OpenAI.